“An outstanding work … the [soccer] book of the decade.” —Sunday Business Post Inverting the Pyramid is a pioneering soccer book that chronicles the evolution of soccer tactics and the lives of the itinerant coaching geniuses who have spread their distinctive styles across the globe. Through Jonathan Wilson’s brilliant historical detective work we learn how the South Americans ...(展开全部)

Whether it's Terry Venables keeping his wife up late at night with diagrams on scraps of paper spread over the eiderdown, or the classic TV sitcom of moving the salt & pepper around the table top in the transport cafe, football tactics are now part of the fabric of everyday life. Steve McLaren's switch to an untried 3-5-2 against Croatia will probably go down as the moment he l...(展开全部)

In INVERTING THE PYRAMID, Jonathan Wilson pulls apart the finer details of the world's game, tracing the global history of tactics, from modern pioneers right back to the beginning when chaos reigned. Along the way, he looks at the lives of great players and thinkers who shaped the sport and probes why the English, in particular, have 'proved themselves unwilling to grapple wit...(展开全部)

Whether it's Terry Venables keeping his wife up late at night with diagrams on scraps of paper spread over the eiderdown, or the classic TV sitcom of moving the salt & pepper around the table top in the transport cafe, football tactics are now part of the fabric of everyday life. Steve McLaren's recent switch to an untried 3-5-2 against Croatia will probably go down as the mome...(展开全部)

伊斯梅尔•卡达莱（1936— ） 阿尔巴尼亚当代最著名的作家和诗人，1936年出生于阿尔巴尼亚南部山城吉诺卡斯特，1954年以诗集《青春的热忱》初登文坛，随后转向小说创作，其作品迄今已在四十多个国家出版。代表作有《亡军的将领》《破碎的四月》《梦幻宫殿》《金字塔》等，在国际上广受好评。评论家称赞他的作品“其诗意的散文和叙事的灵巧，堪称炉火纯青”。曾荣获多个知名国际文学奖项，包括2005年布克国际文学奖、2009年西班牙阿斯图里亚斯亲王奖，以及2015年以色列耶路撒冷文学奖等。

伊斯梅尔•卡达莱（1936— ） 阿尔巴尼亚当代最著名的作家和诗人，1936年出生于阿尔巴尼亚南部山城吉诺卡斯特，1954年以诗集《青春的热忱》初登文坛，随后转向小说创作，其作品迄今已在四十多个国家出版。代表作有《亡军的将领》《破碎的四月》《梦幻宫殿》《金字塔》等，在国际上广受好评。评论家称赞他的作品“其诗意的散文和叙事的灵巧，堪称炉火纯青”。曾荣获多个知名国际文学奖项，包括2005年布克国际文学奖、2009年西班牙阿斯图里亚斯亲王奖，以及2015年以色列耶路撒冷文学奖等。

威廉•戈尔丁（William Golding，1911—1993），英国二十世纪最伟大的小说家之一，他的小说富含寓意，广泛地融入了古典文学，神话、基督教文化以及象征主义，一九八三年因其小说“具有清晰的现实主义叙述艺术以及神话的多样性与普遍性，揭示了当今世界的人性状况”而荣获诺贝尔文学奖；一九八八年获封爵士，二○○八年《泰晤士报》在“一九四五年以来最伟大的五十位英国作家”名单中将戈尔丁名列为第三位。

Set in the superficially placid English village of Stillbourne, The Pyramid represents three episodes in the life of Oliver-as a schoolboy, an undergraduate, and a mature young man. A compelling tale about Oliver's increasing awareness of the deeper meanings of the relationships and events of his youth.

The definitive book about soccer, from the author of The Games: A Global History of the Olympics. There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of soccer are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The single greatest simultaneous human collective experience is the World Cup fi...(展开全部)

A lavishly illustrated revised edition of the ’70s cult book, updated by the author and with a bold new design and contemporary images. Before Franklin Foer, Bill Bryson, and Simon Kuper wrote about soccer, best-selling author and highly respected academic Desmond Morris became a director of a soccer club in order to properly analyze the world’s most popular sport. In this reve...(展开全部)